About Me

I received my MA in philosophy of science many years ago and currently reviving my academic interests. I hope to stimulate individuals in the realms of science, philosophy and the arts...to provide as much free information as possible.

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i remember this well but as i was running out the door to play baseball i had no clue it would come to this. i meet with friends i have known since we were in the 4th grade and we always find it amazing how we keep in touch through email to the point we rarely call each other. entering college in the late 60's i took a course in computers and when they used the punch cards....industry was gearing up to the use of those computers to simple computation to running lathes to aid machinists. my how we have grown....

It is sometimes incomprehensible the achievements of the PC. Everyday data storage capacity, RAM, serious and playful software is offered. The day I walked out of the computer store with a new computer it was outdated and rapidly losing value. Information now will force a new web and it is cool conversing with friends and colleagues. I think back to my university life and wonder how much swifter academic data would have been delivered in place of interlibrary loans and constant twisting the chairman's arm to dip into the budget to buy this or that book, subscribe to a rather obscure journal, or worse borrow from his personal library.

The first experience I had with a computer similar to the one above was through a college buddy who was into computer science...rotating reels of 2" magnet tape, flow sheet diagrams, punchcards, mechanical sorters...spooky and alien names like Cobol and Fortran.

Poet colleague

Annus mirabilis-1905 March is a time of transition winter and spring commence their struggle between moments of ice and mud a robin appears heralding the inevitable life stumbling from its slumber it was in such a period of change in 1905 that the House of Physics would see its Newtonian axioms of an ordered universe collapse into a new frontier where the divisions of time and space matter and energy were to blend as rain and wind in a storm that broke loose within the mind of Albert Einstein where Brownian motion danced seen and unseen, a random walk that became his papers marching through science reshaping the very fabric of the universe we have come to know we all share a common ancestor a star long lost in the eons of memory and yet in that commonality nature demands a permutation a perchance genetic roll of the dice which births a new vision lifting us temporarily from the mystery exposing some of the roots to our existence only to raise a plethora of more questions as did the papers of Einstein in 1905